COURSE: BSC IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the environmental industry.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• General chemistry


• Academic literacy


• Introduction to environmental sciences


• Molecular and cell biology


• Calculus


• Biometry


• Plant biology


• Information literacy


• Remote sensing


• SA and global geomorphology


• Climate and weather of SA


• Animal diversity


• Geoinformatics and Meteorology

Second year subjects:

• SA flora and vegetation


• Process geomorphology


• Introductory GIS


• Introductory soil science


• Invertebrate biology


• Plant biochemical evolution


• African invertebrates


• Geoinformatics and Meteorology

Third year subjects:

• Human environmental interaction


• Environmental geomorphology


• Landscape analysis


• Geoinformatics and Meteorology

Careers: environmentalist, researcher.

Source: www.up.ac.za

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